P4P by Decade - Start and End

[soul_survivor]

P4P discussions are always good fun and get a lot of involvement. My personal P4P list thread still has some activity so I thought what about a thread on p4p lists covering the decade you have watched boxing...one list for the start of the decade, the other for the end; covering as many decades as you like.

The decades I will start with are the 90s and 00s. I will continue with more later.

Start 1990 (as of 1st Jan 1990) -

1. Mike Tyson
2. Julio Cesar Chavez
3. Evander Holyfield
4. Michael Nunn
5. Pernell Whitaker
6. Meldrick Taylor
7. Antonio Esparragoza
8. Azumah Nelson
9. Marlon Starling
10. Raul Perez

End 1999 (as of 31ST Dec 1999) -

1. Felix Trinidad
2. Oscar De La Hoya
3. Roy Jones Jr.
4. Bernard Hopkins
5. Lennox Lewis
6. Naseem Hamed
7. Erik Morales
8. Marco Antonio Barrera
9. Ricardo Lopez
10. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Start 2000 (as of 31st Dec 2000) -

1. Felix Trinidad
2. Roy Jones Jr.
3. Shane Mosley
4. Oscar De La Hoya
5. Lennox Lewis
6. Erik Morales
7. Naseem Hamed
8. Bernard Hopkins
9. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
10. Diego Corrales

End 2009 (as of 31st Dec 2009) -

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
3. Miguel Cotto
4. Juan Manuel Marquez
5. Bernard Hopkins
6. Wladimir Klitschko
7. Nonito Donaire
8. Paul Williams
9. Celestino Cabellero
10. Vitali Klitschko

[soul_survivor]

Let's now have a go with the most recent decade:

Start 2010s (31st Dec 2010) -

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Sergio Martinez
3. Nonito Donaire
4. Bernard Hopkins
5. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
6. Wladimir Klitschko
7. Timothy Bradley
8. Juan Manuel Marquez
9. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
10. Juan Manuel Lopez

End 2010s (31st Dec 2019)

1. Gennady Golovkin
2. Vasyl Lomachenko
3. Terence Crawford
4. Saul Alvarez
5. Anthony Joshua
6. Oleksandr Usyk
7. Naoya Inoue
8. Juan Francisco Estrada
9. Wisaksil Wangek
10. Manny Pacquiao

[soul_survivor]

Let us continue on this grizzled old path...we will go back in time now:

Start 1980 (1st Jan 1980) -

1. Roberto Duran
2. Larry Holmes
3. Alexis Arguello
4. Wilfredo Gomez
5. Ray Leonard
6. Marvin Hagler
7. Wilfred Benitez
8. Vito Antuofermo
9. Ayub Kalule
10. Danny Lopez

[The plunger man]

Let us continue on this grizzled old path...we will go back in time now:

Start 1980 (1st Jan 1980) -

1. Roberto Duran
2. Larry Holmes
3. Alexis Arguello
4. Wilfredo Gomez
5. Ray Leonard
6. Marvin Hagler
7. Wilfred Benitez
8. Vito Antuofermo
9. Ayub Kalule
10. Danny Lopez

no Roberto Duran lost too many fights in that decade to be considered the best fighter of that era……..I would say 70’s he has a better shot at that.
I love Duran but he lost to all the 3 other kings in leonard , hearns and hagler ….add benitez , laing , and robbie sims plus he stained his legacy when quitting mid fight against leonard.

[Willie Pep 229]

Let us continue on this grizzled old path...we will go back in time now:

Start 1980 (1st Jan 1980) -

1. Roberto Duran
2. Larry Holmes
3. Alexis Arguello
4. Wilfredo Gomez
5. Ray Leonard
6. Marvin Hagler
7. Wilfred Benitez
8. Vito Antuofermo
9. Ayub Kalule
10. Danny Lopez

1980s and no Camacho?

[soul_survivor]

no Roberto Duran lost too many fights in that decade to be considered the best fighter of that era……..I would say 70’s he has a better shot at that.
I love Duran but he lost to all the 3 other kings in leonard , hearns and hagler ….add benitez , laing , and robbie sims plus he stained his legacy when quitting mid fight against leonard.

Thats the P4P list AT THE START of 1980. Duran was still p4p the best fighter on the planet at that point in time.

[soul_survivor]

1980s and no Camacho?

Like I just posted above, it's the P4P list AT THE start of the year 1980. The point behind the thread is to compare p4p lists from start and ends of a decade.

[soul_survivor]

Now let's go back to the beginning of the disco decade!

1st Jan 1970 -

1. Jose Napoles
2. Nino Benvenuti
3. Emile Griffith
4. Nicolino Locche
5. Joe Frazier
6. Bob Foster
7. **** Tiger
8. Ruben Olivares
9. Mando Ramos
10. Carlos Teo Cruz

[soul_survivor]

1st Jan 1970 -

1. Jose Napoles
2. Nino Benvenuti
3. Emile Griffith
4. Nicolino Locche
5. Joe Frazier
6. Bob Foster
7. **** Tiger
8. Ruben Olivares
9. Mando Ramos
10. Carlos Teo Cruz

Start 1980 (1st Jan 1980) -

1. Roberto Duran
2. Larry Holmes
3. Alexis Arguello
4. Wilfredo Gomez
5. Ray Leonard
6. Marvin Hagler
7. Wilfred Benitez
8. Vito Antuofermo
9. Ayub Kalule
10. Danny Lopez

Start 1990 (as of 1st Jan 1990) -

1. Mike Tyson
2. Julio Cesar Chavez
3. Evander Holyfield
4. Michael Nunn
5. Pernell Whitaker
6. Meldrick Taylor
7. Antonio Esparragoza
8. Azumah Nelson
9. Marlon Starling
10. Raul Perez

End 1999 (as of 31ST Dec 1999) -

1. Felix Trinidad
2. Oscar De La Hoya
3. Roy Jones Jr.
4. Bernard Hopkins
5. Lennox Lewis
6. Naseem Hamed
7. Erik Morales
8. Marco Antonio Barrera
9. Ricardo Lopez
10. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Start 2000 (as of 31st Dec 2000) -

1. Felix Trinidad
2. Roy Jones Jr.
3. Shane Mosley
4. Oscar De La Hoya
5. Lennox Lewis
6. Erik Morales
7. Naseem Hamed
8. Bernard Hopkins
9. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
10. Diego Corrales

End 2009 (as of 31st Dec 2009) -

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
3. Miguel Cotto
4. Juan Manuel Marquez
5. Bernard Hopkins
6. Wladimir Klitschko
7. Nonito Donaire
8. Paul Williams
9. Celestino Cabellero
10. Vitali Klitschko

Start 2010s (31st Dec 2010) -

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Sergio Martinez
3. Nonito Donaire
4. Bernard Hopkins
5. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
6. Wladimir Klitschko
7. Timothy Bradley
8. Juan Manuel Marquez
9. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
10. Juan Manuel Lopez

End 2010s (31st Dec 2019)

1. Gennady Golovkin
2. Vasyl Lomachenko
3. Terence Crawford
4. Saul Alvarez
5. Anthony Joshua
6. Oleksandr Usyk
7. Naoya Inoue
8. Juan Francisco Estrada
9. Wisaksil Wangek
10. Manny Pacquiao

Above are the complete lists and you can see how P4P lists changed throughout most of those decades...and yet it shows the remarkable longevity of Hopkins, Mayweather and Pacquiao in the modern era.

Ali is another one who may well have started the 70s as a p4p contender if not numero uno if not for the ban.

[Willie Pep 229]

Like I just posted above, it's the P4P list AT THE start of the year 1980. The point behind the thread is to compare p4p lists from start and ends of a decade.

Sorry I don't get it. Camacho from 1980-1989 was 35-0-0 and held multiple titles and cleaned out both the Jr. Lightweight and Lightwright division.

P4P doesn't denote a fighter's ability to move up in weigh, that's called something else, right?

So how can the likes of Vito Antuofermo be on the list but not Macho?